Re:Singapore Says Musk's Electric Cars Are About 'Lifestyle,...
by akiselev on Friday August 23, 2019 @10:25AM
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>Look at today's world vs the world just 3 decades ago. No mass Internet, no WWW, no mobile phones, no eCommerce, much more smoking, much less obesity, a vastly different financial system, ... Society is apparently extremely plastic in adapting to created changes.
The effects of the internet and social media on political discourse already looks like a disaster, obesity is a result of changing food infrastructure and availability, and our financial system goes through a cataclysmic global hiccup every decade or two.
If this is what adaptation looks like, we're screwed.
Re:Singapore Says Musk's Electric Cars Are About 'Lifestyle,...
by raaaaraaaa2 on Friday August 23, 2019 @07:10AM
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On the other hand 1/2 of world looks more or less the same - rural Africa, india, china...
If you believe we are highly adaptable and new technologies will 'save us' somehow check this presentation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkj_91IJVBk
...it's eye opening
Look at today's world vs the world just 3 decades ago. No mass Internet, no WWW, no mobile phones, no eCommerce, much more smoking, much less obesity, a vastly different financial system, ... Society is apparently extremely plastic in adapting to created changes.